Focus on Yiwen ｜ Looking for a group of Cantonese who across Pacific to learn art a century ago

Text/Yangcheng Evening News All -Media Reporter Zhu Shaojie Thautu/Exhibition Party provided

The "Cross -Pacific -Early Cantonese Artists Research Exhibition" opened a few days ago is a "Essential Sea Searching for Source".

More than a hundred years ago, Guangdong was born in modern China that first crossed the western groups of studying in the West. Some Cantonese youths with artistic talents have also moved to the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean, making a living or studying art in Canada, the United States, Cuba and other places.

Li Tiefu "New York Garden"

Among these Cantonese artists who seek art, many master masters who have had a profound influence on Lingnan painting scene in the paintings of Lingnan have been born, including Li Tiefu, Feng Gangbai, Guan Jinao, Yu Ben and others. More than 20 of them who studied in North America in North America appeared at the same time in this exhibition at the same time in this exhibition.

"The Media of New Civilization, Mother of New Civilization"

Guangdong was born in modern China, the first group of studying in the West, and is one of the birthplaces of the centennial tide of studying abroad and the public study abroad system.

The emergence of international students and Chinese workers and Chinese businessmen not only changed the cultural psychology and consciousness of Cantonese, but also drove the transformation of social culture and ideological concepts. In modern China, the political revolution and art revolution in modern China began.

Chen Yinzheng's "Two of the Children's Children's Children's Children"

A few days ago, the "Cross -Pacific -Early Cantonese Artists Research Exhibition" was exhibited at the Art Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts (Changgang Campus). The exhibition is based on the works of the early study abroad in North America, which is supplemented by relevant Cantonese and overseas Chinese history cultural background materials, historical photos, newspapers, reports, and manuscripts. The time and space network sort out their positioning and significance in the modernity of Chinese art.

Li Bing "Lady"

Earlier Cantonese artists unveiled the prelude to the "study abroad" of modern Chinese art, and became the "media of new civilization and the mother of new civilization" as Liang Qichao said. Because of the fierce transformation and change of society, and the experience of studying art in North America, they have prompted them to form a unique artistic style.

Guan Jinao "Shepherd"

After returning to China, they participated in the "Red Society Art Research Association" and the earliest western painting exhibition organized by Guangdong, and participated in the construction of the Guangzhou Municipal Fine Arts College, thereby broadcasting the spiritual spirit of the Sprinkle Garden. In addition, some Cantonese artists stayed in North America or walked in China and the United States to continue exploring, moving towards a diverse practice of east and west integration.

The first appearance of many artists' works

This exhibition gathered more than 20 Cantonese artists studying in North America in the early days. Nearly ten artists have been exhibited at the public art museums in Mainland China for the first time, including Wu Zeshi, Li Xizhang, Xie Rongguang, Zhu Yan, Huang Qiyao, Li Hongde, Huang Yuxue and so on.

Wu Zeshu's "Static"

This exhibition has won the support of many artists' families and friends, and has combined with many art museums and research institutions at home and abroad, including Guangdong Art Museum, Kaiping Art Museum, Hong Kong Art Museum, San Francisco Asian Museum, Stanford University of Canto Art Center , Chinese Chinese History Society, the American Museum of the United States, etc., are extensive representative.

In this exhibition, many works presented to the audience in recent years can be seen. For example, "Black Hair Girl", which was collected by the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, was created during the study abroad period, and many works of his inhuma themes of his old age, such as "Fish Tail", "Bottle Flower" and "Three Bs" and so on. Essence

Li Tiefu's "Fish Tail"

Researchers believe that Li Tiefu's older oil painting works have the most personal characteristics and research value.

In addition, the exhibition also exhibited Guan Jin'ao landscape oil paintings and quick editions collected by the Guanli Library, which is refreshing.

Their artistic appearance needs to be "unveiled"

In recent years, with the pumping of many experts and scholars, academic research and exhibition agencies, the three major sections of the three major sections of Cantonese artists from the beginning of the 1960s from the beginning of the 1960s, the three major sectors of Cantonese artists have been in -depth research and exhibition. List.

However, due to the earliest time to stay in the United States artists, some of them can even be traced back to the second half of the 19th century, and most of them are overseas overseas as overseas Chinese, so many related deeds are in modern Chinese art. The tide became blurred and incomplete.

Guan Mo Garden "Cuba National Park"

"The unique art creation formed between them has failed to attach enough attention, and even wrote unknown Chinese citizens in the history of Chinese and Western art." Regarding these artists, not only far the experience of being involved in the ocean and seeking arts is far from clear. After returning to China, its actions in modern Chinese art are not clear. It does need further attention.

Chen Xijun, a native of Taishan, Guangdong, was considered the first generation of sculptors in China. After returning to China, he was a professor at Guangzhou Municipal Art School and Lizhenqin University in Guangdong Province, but his artistic appearance is still blurred.

Guan Mo Garden, who studied Western painting in Cuba, once made a noise of the whole school due to graduation, but after returning home, he gradually disappeared into the field of art research;

Zhu Yan "Landscape"

Zhu Yan, known as the "Chinese Modernist Pioneer", is the earliest Chinese artist who explored European and American modern art and has an international reputation. However, his original work has never appeared in mainland China ...

The dispute between Li Tiefu's life is finally "settled"

Even if the painters who are currently known to the West to study oil paintings and have deep accomplishments like Li Tiefu have been praised by Mr. Sun Yat -sen's "East Asian Painting Giant", the academic community is still unknown to studying and living life in Canada and the United States in the early years. Through the planning and preparation of this exhibition, related research has been significantly promoted. According to Li Tiejun, during the preparation process, the exhibition team found that the daughter of the painter Chen Haiying published the book "The Legend of the two Generations of the Painting -Li Tiefu and Chen Haiying", which tells the story of Chen and Li's 18 years of contact. Activity and lines.

Li Tiefu "Bottle Flower"

The book mentioned that in February 1947, the two held the "Li Tiefu Teacher and Student Painting Exhibition" in Shanghai Daxin Company. Before the exhibition, Li Tiefu dictated it and Chen Haiying wrote a pen with a pen with a pen. Use a brush to supplement and modify it.

It can be identified from it that at the beginning, Li Tiefu supplemented with a brush "1871 -Born in Chenshan Village, Heshan", and then Chen Haiying's pen was originally "1887 -16 years old ...".

According to Li Tiejun, this is the only manuscript that Li Tiefu personally wrote a manuscript by himself. Based on this, he can confirm the year of birth to 1871. This has made the problem that argued over the years settled.

September 17, 2022 Yangcheng Evening News A11

More than a hundred years ago, Guangdong took the lead in "looking at the world", and Guangdong artists have been looking for "poetry and far away" in the direction of the ocean.

Source | Yangcheng Evening News · Yangcheng School

Responsible editor | Deng Qiong

School pair | Peng Jiye

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